DEW AND MILDEW: SEMI-DETACHED STORIES FROM KARABAD, INDIA. London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-424, original olive-green cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black and gold. First edition. Wren's first book of fiction (preceded by three nonfiction works for teachers and administrators on education in Indian schools), a series of interconnected short stories about a haunted bungalow in India, based, according to some, on actual events and on the author's experience there. "Linked stories of uncanny 'coincidences' at Sudden-Death Lodge, cursed by fakir. Evidently based on an actual haunted Indian bungalow, which inspired horror story 'Fear' in ROUGH SHOOTING (1938). Neatly written with solid background of Indian life and customs." - Robert Knowlton. The author's weird and fantastic fiction, collected here and in several other books, has been overshadowed by his popular writings about the French Foreign Legion, in which he served. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-215. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 503. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Owner's signature dated 1913 on front free endpaper. Free endpapers tanned, edge of text block foxed, small stain to top edge of text block, a very good copy. (#128266).
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